Variac

[L.G. Robertson]

At 01:30 PM 01/31/2008, you wrote:
>I have come to the opinion that I should just plan on changing the 
>electrolytics for new ones even before I bring up the radio. Haste makes 
>waste. If the cap(s) don't fail now they will probably fail pretty soon so 
>just go ahead and change them out right at the start.
>
>Bob, WA2CKY


Same here, after 40 years of fooling with 'em...you can get away with 
reforming them _sometimes_...but it still makes me a tad nervous to run a 
rig with reformed electrolytics....it's always in the back of your 
mind...so I mostly just replace them; they're usually not too expensive.

But transfomers ARE.

-Lin/KJ6EF

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